Publications

The article is devoted to the contractual models designed to formalize the legal relationship between the clearing participants (parties to the original derivative transaction) and the central counterparty (“CCP”). The authors deal with the legal concepts of novation, so-called “open offer” and assignment, which are commonly used in international practice.

The article studies the Bayer/Monsanto merger which forms part of the recent wave of mega-mergers that has transformed the structure of the factors of production segments of the global food value chain in recent decades.

The article studies superior bargaining power which arises when one trading partner becomes dependent on the other. It can be abused to exploit the counterparty or to grab profits within a product value chain. It is necessary to apply antimonopoly law to superior bargaining power because, firstly, abuse of a superior bargaining power distorts the product value chain and, finally, leads to higher prices or a decline in product quality

The article examines the Soviet system of knowledge production and its relevance in an era of challenges already brought by the fourth industrial revolution and the tectonic economic and social shifts it is expected to cause around the world.

The chapter offers a critical analysis of the call for policy convergence in Competition Law. This merely emanates from the global business community and enables established Competition Law regimes, such as those of the United States and Europe, to influence the convergence point and take ownership of the process.

The first of three volumes aiming to provide a comprehensive reference on EU and UK competition law. A high-level introduction to the design and history of EU and UK competition law, including an overview of the main actors and their objectives.

This book aims precisely to fill this gap by discussing new approaches in understanding the role of efficiency and equity concerns in competition law. This book relies on competition law principles to discuss future approaches to regulating the market for political ideas at the interface of competition law and media law in the new digital age.

Taking a social contract perspective, and noting the hybrid nature of competition law, which is a tool of economic order, but also a form of social regulation, the study explores the main difficulty in enriching competition law with equity concerns: the economic foundations of mainstream competition law in welfare economics, and the crucial separation of the economic efficiency dimension from that of distributive justice.

The paper examines the intellectual underpinnings of this form of abusive/anticompetitive conduct and puts forward a “mechanism design approach” with the aim to reduce the occurrence of sham litigation.

The article is investigating the Chinese the Google/Motorola merger agency’s decision and the basis for its decision making and finds that much of the criticism is groundless and misleading because the critics have failed to incorporate all elements of the global value chain of mobile intelligent terminals into their analyses.

By examining the facts and analysis in the decision, this article concludes that the market definition approach to identifying market power is misleading and counterproductive, supporting the position of Professor Kaplow.

After reviewing the theory of RPM and competition in the software market, this article concludes that RPM is less likely to be considered pro-competitive in the software market and therefore rule of reason analysis cannot be applied in these circumstances, per se rule fits software RPM.